Soccer Dollars Miss the Net: One Man's Opinion

By Ben Meisner

   
Instead of dropping $20,000 dollars to have the Canadian National Women’s Soccer Team practice in the city for a week , how about we just set that money aside and send some of our best soccer players out for some special events?  

Twenty G’s for the gals to take over the fields for a week works out to about $800.00 dollars for each athlete.

What makes the whole thing so special is the manner in which Events Prince George is treating the matter. We are giving the head coach and manager a special tour with the intent of trying to talk them into taking our money so they can practice here.

Money well spent?

Aren't there some budding young athletes who, for whatever  reason, can’t raise the necessary money to get some special help , why wouldn’t we be sending them off to that special school or are we hoping that by watching the national women’s team do their thing that we will provoke a new interest in soccer in the city?

We already know that soccer is a big sport in this city; we also know that we are training some very good athletes from this city. In order to hit the world stage we will need a better effort at promoting the sport in Canada at both the Men’s and Women’s level. Something that so far just hasn’t happened in this country.

So instead, Events PG is trying to lure them into the city with a free- bee compliments of the PG Youth Soccer Association. It has that same ring as an ice oval at $10 million for training for the 2010.  And quite frankly, makes about the same amount of sense.

I’m Meisner and that is one man’s opinion.

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